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Benny Higgins WINTER 2020 iod.com/scotland Direction The official membership magazine for the Institute of Directors in Scotland IoD Scotland Conference : Youth can’t be left to pay price of the pandemic Top tips for fostering innovation and inclusion Education has to lead recovery Professor Heather McGregor cbe on Scotland’s challenges post-Covid IoD Scotland Learn from 2020, look & Direction National Director Scotland: forward to 2021 Malcolm Cannon For email enquiries: While the tragic events of 2020 can never be under-estimated, [email protected] it’s vital directors and business leaders raise their heads from W: www.iod.com Address: the crisis and focus on the possibilities the future holds to truly 10 Charlotte Square, build back better, says IoD Scotland Chair Aidan O’Carroll Edinburgh EH2 4DR T: 0131 557 5488 Direction is the official With the news of Tier 4 restrictions being placed Benny Higgins, who delivered our Leadership membership magazine on a large swathe of the Scottish population, the address, laid out the challenges ahead and put of Institute of Directors next few months still look as being a real education and learning at the heart of how Scotland and is challenge in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic. Scotland will succeed. published by: As a result, it is easy to forget the progress that At the IoD, we are ready to play our part in Chamber Media is being made in record time with the providing the highest quality leadership and Services, 4 Hilton Road, development of vaccines that hold the promise business training and this is being delivered Bramhall, Stockport, of helping to bring life back to a greater sense of across several platforms. Take a look at what is Cheshire SK7 3AG normality in 2021. on offer – there is sure to be something relevant While living in the moment will remain to you and your organisation. Advertising sales: stressful for a time yet, we can all look forward For those that aspire to be directors in Colin Regan now to some positive changes that will come in business, our Chartered Director Programme Tel: 07871 444922 / the weeks and months ahead. (CDir) is recognised around the world as a 01942 537959 This was the theme at our first virtual Scotland leading qualification and wherever your Email: colinregan001@ Conference where we explored how ambitions may lie, there is a course and yahoo.co.uk collaboration will drive Scotland’s growth. We programme relevant for you. also explored how exciting opportunities, as well Production: as challenges, lay ahead as we rebuild the As 2021 fast approaches there will be many Rob Beswick economy, create new businesses that can reflections no doubt on the most extraordinary Tel: 0161 426 7957 / harness our Green revolution, and make year that we have perhaps experienced. But 2020 07964 375216 Scotland a true global leader in innovation and will soon be over and the green shoots that we Email: rob@chamber technology that will deliver high-quality jobs, will all be looking forward to seeing in 2021 are mediaservices.co.uk new platforms for growth, and help our new already beginning to emerge. generation of leaders to pick up the mantle and There is much to look forward to, not just Editorial: ‘build back better’. being able to be with family and friends again, Please send press What a great challenge that is for all of us to but creating a more dynamic, caring and releases or editorial for pick up and play our part in. Whatever the collaborative society that will harness the great consideration for future organisation you are in, wherever you are based, business opportunities is something we can all issues of Direction to: all sectors will play an important role in driving be a part of. Kirsten Paul growth. Roll on 2021! Email: kirsten@clark communications.co.uk Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of material contained within this magazine, neither IoD Scotland nor Chamber Media Services can accept any responsibility for omissions or inaccuracies in its editorial or advertising content. The views expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the IoD. The carriage of advertisements or editorials in this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the products or services advertised. Cover: Professor Heather Aidan O’Carroll pictured co-hosting this year’s Virtual IoD McGregor, is this issue’s Scotland Conference. Full report, see from pg 24 Leadership Interview. Pg 14. Photo: Suzy Lowe WWW.IOD.COM 03 News/ Executive comment Out of adversity comes opportunity After a year like no other, we have hit the re-set button and prepare for a 2021 full of inspiration, innovation and collaboration, says IoD Scotland National Director Malcolm Cannon It’s fair to say that 2020 has been a year telling results came from our Brexit unlike any other. The financial, social, questions. 69 per cent of our audience physical and mental health challenges said they were not prepared at all or we have all faced over the past nine only somewhat prepared for Brexit, that our young adults are reaching months have been the most difficult we while two-thirds of participants said employment age with the necessary have seen for 80 years. And it feels like they would benefit from clearer skills to thrive. no amount of past experiences, both guidance both generally and specifically I hope we recognise the benefits that business and personal, could have around supply chains to help them lifelong learning, reskilling and prepared us for it. prepare for the post-Brexit world. upskilling have brought to light this But throughout this time, we have Coronavirus and its devastating year, and that self-improvement in demonstrated great strength in our impact has understandably been at the these areas continues to be a priority for support for neighbours, frontline health top of the agenda for everyone, but this individuals and businesses alike. We workers and in complying with difficult has meant that Brexit preparations have have seen a marked increase in demand and ever-changing restrictions. I hope not been given the attention they for training in governance during the that this community spirit and selfless deserve – from anyone. And as we see crisis as directors realise that they are attitudes towards our peers is something the light at the end of the tunnel as news under-prepared and qualified to handle we will retain as we emerge from this of successful vaccines emerge, we must the challenges facing their businesses. pandemic. learn from our experiences. We should also encourage more I would also like to see the heightened Nelson Mandela once said: “I never collaboration; whether through helping resilience demonstrated during these lose; I either win or I learn” and we others through volunteering, mentoring times become a key skill in 2021 and should adopt his mindset to be better or CSR, or by encouraging two-way beyond. However, to quote our national prepared for next time. For there will be engagement for business and business sports captains at our IoD Conference in a next time; whether it’s another organisations with Government. This November, “If we can only build pandemic, a financial crisis, or a climate dialogue will benefit both parties with a resilience by experiencing hardship, related challenge. better understanding of the other’s many of us may well opt out”. I believe 2021 needs to be a year of perspective. We must not underestimate collaboration and improvement. We One of our biggest lessons from 2020 resilience, as it is this faith in our ability must focus on the young; as Benny must be that we are all in this together. to survive adversity that makes us daring Higgins said at Conference, “we cannot That should give us confidence and and innovative leaders. allow the young generation to pay the encouragement to build a stronger During Conference, we asked biggest price of the pandemic.” If we economy as we transition out of the delegates how they were feeling about work to improve the alignment between pandemic and, indeed, out of the many issues, but some of the most business and academia, we can ensure European Union. International focus on inward investment The Scottish Government has launched Plan in parliament, the Minister for a targeted inward investment plan that Ivan McKee Trade, Investment and Innovation, Ivan aims to further internationalise McKee, said: “For the past seven years Scotland’s economy. The plan will see Scotland has attracted the most inward effort focused on nine areas of investment of any UK nation or region opportunity in what was described as a outside London. The time is right to fundamental shift of approach. The build on these strong foundations. areas include energy transition, health “The Covid-19 pandemic has technology, the space sector and digital highlighted the need for greater financial and business services. resilience in our economy and to build The Scottish Government said that back better. Scotland’s Inward priority will be given to investors who a year. It said that it was estimated the Investment Plan therefore represents a can build local supply chains, provide plan would have the potential to fundamental shift in focus. Our robust, new skills and invest in research. To increase GDP by £4.2bn, boost exports analytical approach has identified nine encourage the spread of investment by £2.1bn over the next two decades opportunity areas where Scotland’s across Scotland, there will be an emphasis and add up to £680m a year to govern- genuine global strengths, often built on on the creation of regional clusters. ment revenues as it seeks to deliver our academic excellence, align with The Scottish Government will focus 100,000 jobs over the next decade.
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